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Eric Eggert
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My name is Eric Eggert, I’m a web accessibility (🦾/#a11y) expert. I have a website which hosts my long-form blog at yatil.net.
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WCAG’s A and AA distinction is mostly academic yatil.net
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The infuriating inefficiency of accessibility audits yatil.net
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Hotshot, 2023 - ★★½ letterboxd.com
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In detail: 1.4.11 Non-Text Contrast (User Interface Components) yatil.net
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Deadpool, 2016 - ★★½ letterboxd.com
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Deadpool 2, 2018 - ★★ letterboxd.com
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I’m phasing out my micro.blog account for various reasons.

Follow me alternatively at @yatil@yatil.social or see my blog at yatil.net.

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“AI” won’t solve accessibility yatil.net
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Be anti-ableist yatil.net
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Access by a thousand curb cuts yatil.net
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The Greatest Night in Pop, 2024 - ★★★★ letterboxd.com
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It’s the hope that kills you yatil.net
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The Year of Focus on Focus yatil.net
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, 1989 - ★★★★ letterboxd.com
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, 1984 - ★★ letterboxd.com
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Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1981 - ★★★ letterboxd.com
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Level Access crosses the line; buys accessibility overlay company yatil.net
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@pratik Maybe? I don’t know why my feed is so big… I guess you’re fine, to be honest 😀

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@pratik 16 years of full-text blog posts 😂

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Well, this explains why cross-posting through micro.blog is not working anymore 😀

Gotta trim my feed!

@manton Maybe an error message in account/feeds would be useful when this happens. 😂

Micro.blog log message: Downloading feed (from yatil.net) – Skipping processing large feed
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WCAG 2: Guidelines and Guardrails yatil.net
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It depends, indeed. yatil.net
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Exclusive accordions exclude yatil.net
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Enough with the baby steps! Let’s make accessibility leaps. (My rejected axe-con submission.) micro.yatil.net
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Eric Eggert
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Enough with the baby steps! Let’s make accessibility leaps. (My rejected axe-con submission.) yatil.net
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Inspecting websites and web views on iOS devices yatil.net
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@jean Take good care!

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@jean I miss the Pacific.

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@mikemai2awesome I mean, I didn’t hate it (I try to normalize my rating to three stars for average non-notable films). There was a lot going on that I liked, like the world building and the different creatures. But the resolution being a big fight-fight-fight several times in the movie was disappointing. It probably could have been a more engaging story.

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@wrenman Good post. I think you always need both, but you get buy-in for the government action by individual action. For example, a lot of people here in Germany have installed solar panels on the balcony of their rental apartments, and now politics will make the process easier and allow you to use more power from those panels. When I’m walking through the neighborhood, every installed panel shows me that there are people who have a similar understanding of the climate crisis as I have and that is great. And that is why individual action is important.

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@vincent I love those whimsical animations of album and playlist covers in Apple Music!

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@vincent Making that transition is hard, but you are doing a great job with Gluon and the other projects. I wished I had leads for work. I certainly keep my ears open and refer people to you when I can.

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@yatil Turns out Hookmark is on Setapp. Well, that worry is gone then 🙂

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@vincent Urgh. I know the feeling. I started doing 4 days of freelance work with a fixed client in the past couple of years and while it does not give me as much freedom as I would like, regular money in the bank is also an enormous contribution to one’s freedom. (As much as I hate that.)

For the laptop, have you looked into leasing one? I found that to be beneficial in spreading the cost around and have each month something to deduct from VAT, instead of doing the big purchase, spread the deduction it over 3–5 years thing that we need to do here in Germany. It is a little bit more pricy than buying it outright, but I can buy it out at the end of the lease and get a good resale value out of it.

Hope everything works out quickly! Let us know what the best way for support is!

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@LRL Thanks!

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@matt Because it is navigation, not an application menu. Menu roles are for application menus, links are for navigations. Mixing them does help no one. This is also basically what Marco says in his article.

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@besenwagen It’s honesty one of the most common issues I see. So easy to explain and train people to do the right thing, but we just leave it to devs and their google skills.

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@starrwulfe I did use SimpleID simpleid.org I route through IndieAuth for now until I can get something self-hosted to work again.

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@instantiator No problem, the fediverse is confusing at times 😃

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@heyscottyj I’ll miss your voice in my ears going forward. Your health and wellbeing are much more important than anything else. Take care!

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@mattgemmell Thanks for sharing your touching story. I can’t imagine how hard it must have been.

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@gdp Nothing wrong with it. The differences are really not that huge between fonts.

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@jean Oh, the memories of Austin food trucks. Thanks for making me hungry for a Conscious Cravings wrap, Jean!

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@tiff Darn, this is a tough situation. 😞 Good luck with the fundraiser but also with the job search. Let me know if you have a LinkedIn I can share with people. I don’t have the best connections, but it might be worth a try!